Covid Island Discs

Day 441: Tainted Love, Soft Cell

Time for a trip down memory lane with this 80s rock classic. Tainted love first appeared on the Australian radio airwaves in 1981. At the time a good friend and mine were avid listeners of the Sydney radio station 2SM and this station used to produce a top 100 chart which consisted of a piece of A5 paper in different colours with a list of songs that were in the charts that week. Both of use had a great little collection of these A5 lists but sadly over the years I lost mine. I don’t think my friend ever liked this song although hearing it again after so many years did fill me with delight